Category Archives: Nature

WALU NGALINDI from GRANT WAKEFIELD on Vimeo.

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Still Quite high!

It’s 369 feet high. That’s about twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (minus the foundation). I like this tree. The people who discovered it have never revealed its true location, which is somewhere in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. And though it’s got a nickname, “Stratosphere Giant,” it is no longer the giant. It’s been trumped.
After its short four-year reign as World’s Tallest, two hikers, Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor, were deep in another section of another park, Redwood National Park (purchased in 1978 during the Carter administration) when they came across a new stand of trees, taller than anyone had ever seen before. The tallest of the tall is 379 feet 4 inches, 10 feet taller than the Giant. It’s now called “Hyperion.”

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Patrollers send off a charge on Cheget Mountain, Russia, creating a massive avalanche that reaches the valley floor and almost covers the audience that gathers to watch the huge face slide. (via)

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In historic times there have been large eruptions every 250-600 years. The largest lava flow in Iceland and the entire earth from a single eruption is originated from Bárðarbunga about 8500 years ago. The lava is believed to be 21-30 cubic kilometers and covers approximately 950 square kilometers.

Last time: 1910. (Ow Wait a minute..)
[neighbour of recent new friend eyjafjallajkul]

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If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only because tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes. When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden:

Orwell is one of those who seems proper for these kind of rule books, see more, for the rules.
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